When Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana, Italy’s fashion governing body, first announced its commitment to promote inclusivity and diversity in 2018 within fashion in 2018 the company started with education. Published in 2019, CNMI’s Inclusion and Diversity Manifesto highlighted the path forward for Italian companies including inclusivity strategies that took into consideration ethnicity, age, socio-economic conditions and different skill levels.
Now, with an established foundation in its commitment, CNMI has joined forces with Mygrants, the platform developed by Christian Richmond Nzi that since its foundation has provided career and placement services to migrants and refugees in Italy, to put its goals into action.
“We are proud to present this new project, marking an important step in the evolution process to make our fashion system more and more inclusive,” said Carlo Capasa, chairman for Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. “Following the release of our Manifesto in 2019, we started to take action with several initiatives, including “Fashion Deserves the World.”
For Mygrants, who has proven proficient in assessing skills and matching supply and demand in the labor market, the partnership with CNMI opens the door to the fashion sector of the workforce.
“We’ve been working across different sectors, and after a year and a half

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